print email comment close Gravely Gorgeous: Gargoyles, Grotesques & the Nineteenth-Century Imagination URL: http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/adw/gravely/overview.html Description: This site is a companion to an exhibit about the admiration by Victorians of the Gothic style of architectural decoration of cathedrals, which featured gargoyles ("decorative waterspouts that preserve stonework") and grotesques (that "serve a variety of other practical and ornamental functions, as corbels or capitals, for instance"). Includes a gallery of images and a glossary. From the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. Publisher: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Extra Keywords Notre Dame de Paris Amiens Reims Well Cathedral Troyes Library of Congress Subject Headings: Architecture -- Details Architecture, Gothic Gargoyles Gothic revival (Architecture) Grotesque in architecture LII Database Information: Record 273 created by Maria Brandt on 03/01/2005 Last modification on 05/11/2006 Published: 03/01/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/273